Translating Maternal Violence : The Discursive Construction of Maternal Filicide in 1970s Japan / / by Alessandro Castellini
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| Autore: |
Castellini Alessandro
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| Titolo: |
Translating Maternal Violence : The Discursive Construction of Maternal Filicide in 1970s Japan / / by Alessandro Castellini
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| Pubblicazione: | London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. 2017. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (XI, 273 p. 3 illus.) |
| Disciplina: | 359.03 |
| Soggetto topico: | Sociology |
| Crime—Sociological aspects | |
| Feminist theory | |
| Ethnology—Asia | |
| Literature—Translations | |
| Oriental literature | |
| Gender Studies | |
| Crime and Society | |
| Feminism | |
| Asian Culture | |
| Translation Studies | |
| Asian Literature | |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Filicide in the media: news coverage of mothers who kill in 1970s Japan -- Chapter 2. The Women’s Liberation Movement in 1970s Japan -- Chapter 3. Contested meanings: mothers who kill and the rhetoric of ūman ribu -- Chapter 4. Filicide and maternal animosity in Takahashi Takako’s early fiction -- Conclusion. . |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This book provides the first full-length, English-language investigation of the multiple and often contradictory ways in which mothers who kill their children were portrayed in 1970s Japan. It offers a snapshot of a historical and social moment when motherhood was being renegotiated, and maternal violence was disrupting norms of acceptable maternal behaviour. Drawing on a wide range of original archival materials, it explores three discursive sites where the image of the murderous mother assumed a distinctive visibility: media coverage of cases of maternal filicide; the rhetoric of a newly emerging women’s liberation movement known as ūman ribu; and fictional works by the Japanese writer Takahashi Takako. Using translation as a theoretical tool to decentre the West as the origin of (feminist) theorizations of the maternal, it enables a transnational dialogue for imagining mothers' potential for violence. This thought-provoking work will appeal to scholars of feminist theory, cultural studies and Japanese studies. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Translating Maternal Violence |
| ISBN: | 1-137-53882-1 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910252726503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Thinking Gender in Transnational Times